CHAPTER 9

Test

Overview

Test is the project phase consisting of quality assurance (QA) tasks and acceptance testing by the team and the client.

Organizations sometimes confuse or conflate quality control (QC) and QA.

Scrounging for Project Resources

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Sometimes management wants to arbitrarily cut a project’s budget without cutting the scope to pursue more efficiency. This action guarantees an unsuccessful project outcome. Even cutting the project budget and scope creates a considerable risk that the remaining budget won’t deliver a net benefit. It’s often better to cancel projects than to cut budgets.

On the other hand, projects can always produce ...

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